This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES), Division of Risk Analysis, Fire and External Hazards Analysis Branch. The supervisor is MarKHenry Salley. This  position is in the Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208.  This position is not subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position is subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements.

Duties

The successful candidate serves as a higher-level staff specialist providing technical and programmatic support to the Fire and External Hazards Analysis Branch. The incumbent will manage and perform evaluations, research, analyses, and make risk-informed recommendations regarding technical issues within the Branch’s area of responsibility, including fire protection engineering, fire hazard and risk analysis based on fire modeling and probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) of nuclear facilities, and post-fire safe shutdown.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• This is a Drug Testing position.
• Must be able to meet/maintain security & suitability requirements.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (GG-13) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.   SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as demonstrated knowledge of the application of industry practices, applicable codes and standards on fire protection engineering and design, and/or nuclear safety, and/or analytical methods in nuclear plants.  Knowledge of, and/or experience with fire hazard analysis (FHA), fire scenario development, fire dynamics and computational mathematical fire modeling. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume.The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:1. Demonstrated knowledge of the design, operation and configuration of major systems of commercial nuclear power plants (reactor, engineered safety feature, balance of plant, and auxiliary). (EXAMPLE: Describe your education, training and experience you have related to engineering (fire protection, nuclear, mechanical, electrical, chemical, or similar) or natural sciences (e.g., physics). Describe your experience related to the following: (1) research, engineering and analysis or inspection experience involving design, maintenance, or operation of nuclear power plant systems; (2) Post-fire safe-shutdown similar to 10 CFR 50.48. Appendix A General Design Criteria 3 and Appendix R.)   2. Demonstrated skill in applying the principles, theories, and practices of risk-informed, performance-based computational fire modeling in the risk assessment of complex nuclear facilities (e.g., operating commercial nuclear power reactors, new reactor designs, fuel cycle, spent fuel management, etc.). (EXAMPLE: Describe experience, education, and training which demonstrates your knowledge of the principles, theories and practices of engineering or physical science as it relates to the application of fire dynamics specifically when performing complex computational fire models in nuclear power facility design, fabrication, construction, analysis, testing, maintenance and/or operations. Provide examples demonstrating your experience in the application of computational fire model analysis for nuclear power plants, other complex facilities, or fire scenario development as used in voluntary consensus standards such as NFPA 804. Describe your accomplishments in areas such as developing and working with data, tools and methods as they pertain to performing computational fire modeling such as NUREG 1805, CFAST and FDS fire models.   3. Demonstrated ability to manage complex regulatory or technical issues and to develop sound recommendations and solutions. (EXAMPLE: Describe your experience and training with managing complex regulatory or technical issues and developing recommendations for resolution. Describe your specific role and provide examples that reflect your technical ability and contribution).  4. Ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, with colleagues, subordinates, NRC management in headquarters or regions, ACRS, the Commission, members of the public, representatives of professional groups or other Federal or State agencies. Ability to build and sustain coalitions across organizations.  (EXAMPLE: Describe specific experience, training and accomplishments which demonstrate your communication skills, both orally and in writing. Describe your ability to lead complex technical discussions and consolidate complex and diverse opinions into concise presentations, memoranda, letters, reports; work in a team or group atmosphere; formulate balanced and well-founded recommendations; establish effective work-relationships with colleagues, supervisors, and other government and industry officials and coordinate and lead meetings. Describe oral and written presentations you have performed within your organization, including published technical documents you have authored. List presentations you have made to outside groups including professional organizations, advisory groups, the public, and/or Congress.)  

Education

Qualifications for 0804 Series:

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f)nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR 

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 

2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.

4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Human Resources Attn: Darlene Negrin Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Darlene Negrin
• Phone: 301-287-0559
• Email: [email protected]